ESSAYS (selected)

“In My Life, It Was a Good Thing”

Studies in Musical Theatre (Volume 18, Issue 1; Special Issue: Sondheim from the Side)

“Shelter”

New Letters (Summer/Fall 2023)

“The Ride”

Cleaver (Summer 2023)

“They Don’t Tell You”

Fourth Genre (Fall 2022) — Pushcart Prize Nominee; Notable American Essayist

“Learning to Listen”

The Reflexive Teaching Artist: Collected Wisdom from the Drama/Theatre Field, edited by Kathryn Dawson and Daniel A. Kelin II

“The Trouble with Tears”

TDR: The Drama Review (Volume 58, No. 4; Special Issue: Performing Desire)

PLAYS (selected)

I Do Today

Workhaus Collective: A Collection of Plays (2019)

  • Jewish Playwriting Contest Top 10 (2017)

  • Solo Celebration Series, Greenhouse Theater Center, Chicago (2016)

Carin Silkaitis in I DO TODAY, Greenhouse Theater Center, dir. Jacob Harvey

Abdu Hytrek, Esme Ayvar-Perez, and Gay Glenn in THE REALM, The Side Project, dir. Kelly Howe

The Realm

Playscripts, Inc.

  • FAIR School for Arts/Stages Theatre Company, Minneapolis (2022)

  • The Other Theatre Company, The Side Project, Chicago (2016)

  • Down Payment Productions, The Wild Project, New York (2010)

  • Winner of the 2005 National Waldo M. and Grace C. Bonderman Playwriting Workshop, Indiana Repertory (2005)

  • Additional productions by Starlight Theatre OC, BackStory Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, AlphaNYC Theater Company, Imagination Stage, and others

God of the Gaps

  • New Madrid: A Journal of Contemporary Literature (Winter 2009) — Pushcart Prize nominee

  • Cohen New Works Festival, UT-Austin (2007)

Portmanteau

  • The Blue Theatre, Austin, TX (2009)

    • Interactive solo play performed by and developed with Carra Martinez

[assimulation] at The Off Center, dir. Jack Pryor

[assimulation]

  • Women & Theatre Annual Conference, Columbia College, Chicago (2006)

  • FronteraFest Long Fringe, The Off Center, Austin, TX (2006)

SHORT PLAYS, MONOLOGUES, and other SMALL Pieces

Words for Winter on Nicollet Mall — Northern Lights Festival (2017)

In and Out — The Other Theatre Company, Royal George Theatre, Chicago (2014); published in Others by Chicago Dramaworks (2015)

Laura from The Realm — Actor’s Choice: Monologues for Teens, Playscripts, Inc. (2008)

Lemonade — Heideman Award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville (2008)

ADAPTATIONS & COLLABORATIVE WRITING

The Caregiver Project

Wonderlust Productions — Playwriting Team for community-engaged production (2024)

Peer Gynt

Sod House Theater with University of Minnesota + Augsburg University— Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s script for site-specific production (2014)

The Visit

Sod House Theater — Adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s script for site-specific production (2013)

The Cherry Orchard

Sod House Theater — Adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s script for site-specific production (2011 & 2012)

COPYWRITING

Experience with:

  • Website Content

  • SEO Writing

  • Social Media and Email Marketing

  • Research-Based and Academic Writing

Samples available on request.